Demographic and Health Survey 2006 - IPUMS Subset

Mali, 2006

Reference ID

MLI_2006_DHS_v01_M_v01_A_IPUMS

Producer(s)

Cellule de Planification et de Statistique du Ministere de la Sante' (CPS/MS) [Mali], Direction Nationale de la Statistique et de l'Informatique du Ministere de l'Economie, de l'Industrie et du Commerce (DNSI/MEIC) [Mali], and Macro International Inc., Minnesota Population Center

Collection(s)

Integrated Public Use Microdata Series (IPUMS) Fragility, Conflict and Violence

Metadata

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Aug 15, 2018

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May 01, 2020

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Date of first marriage or cohabitation (CMC) (M_MAR1STCMCMN)

Data file: MLI2006-M.dat

Overview

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 0

Start: 263

End: 266

Width: 4

Range: -

Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question

414. CHECK 410 AND 411:

MARRIED/LIVED WITH ONE WOMAN ONLY ONCE AND 411=1
In which month in which year did you begin living with your wife/partner?

OTHER
I would like to talk about when, for the first time, you were married/began to live with a woman as if married. In which month and in which year were you married/did you begin to live with a woman for the first time?

MONTH __
DOESN'T KNOW THE MONTH 98

YEAR__GO TO 416
DOESN'T KNOW THE YEAR 9998

Value	Category
9999	NIU (not in universe)

Description

Definition

MAR1STCMCMN (MV509) reports the century month code (CMC) for the date of the man's first marriage or cohabitation.

Century month codes (CMC) are particularly useful for checking the consistency of dates, calculating intervals between events, and imputing dates when the information for an event is missing or partially complete.

Century month codes (CMC) are calculated by multiplying by 12 the difference between the year of an event and 1900. The year 1900 was chosen as the reference period because all of the DHS-relevant events occurred during the twentieth or twenty-first centuries. The month of the event is added to the previous result.

CMC = (Year - 1900) * 12 + Month

For example, the CMC for June 2002 is:

CMC = (2002 - 1900) * 12 + 6 = 1230

In other words, 1,230 months have elapsed between January 1900 and June 2002. Starting with CMC figures, one can calculate the month and year using the following formulas:

Year = int( ( CMC - 1 )/12 ) + 1900
[int(x) is the integer part of x]
Month = CMC - ( ( Year - 1900 ) * 12 )

The information above is based on "Online Guide to DHS Statistics" [URL omitted from DDI.] (Rutstein and Rojas, 2006).

concept

Concept

var_concept.title	Vocabulary
Marriage and cohabitation Variables -- TOPICS	IPUMS

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